On 06/10/11 11:02 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Bill Moran<wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I don't think ALTER COLUMN TYPE will implicitly convert from varchar to INT. Try: ALTER TABLE reference ALTER COLUMN color TYPE INT USING CAST(color AS INT);Your command suggestion worked perfect but can you explain why yours worked and mine didn't? I've never used 'USING CAST' command before.
pgsql <= 8.3 was lax about char->other casting. due to some discovered ambiguities, it was tightened up in 8.4+
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